Zara Family History
Zara Name Meaning
Italian: habitational name from the Italian name for the city of Zadar on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. Italian: in Sicily possibly from a variant of za(g)ara ‘orange flower’ or in Venezia of Zadra . Spanish: from the female personal name Zara (see Sara ). Possibly also Basque: topographic name from zara ‘thicket’. This surname is not found in the Basque Country.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022